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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Given enough time, every large corporation will create a project named either Atlas or Genesis. Do not work on this project.
Or anything with a variant of utils in the name is a good sign that you're about to enter a tar pit of ones and zeros.
Any class names with verbs in them. You would think people would realize this, but no ...
My favorite was a coworker who found himself facing a class, not a method, but a class, named StartSession.
That’s the session that’s at the start, right?
*intentionally playing innocently dumb*
Of course it is. They should have used a session queue and then could do:
my $sessions = $session->new;my $start_session = $sessions->shift;
Much more flexible that way ;)
With the possible exception of Acme::UNIVERSAL::new [cpan.org], of course.
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